Horse-blanket holder.



E. B. ANDERSON.

HORSE BLANKET HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED PEB.3,1912.

1,072,070. Patented Sept.2,1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed. February 3, 1912. Serial No. 675,276.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS B. ANonusoN, citizen of the United States, residing at Rock Falls, in the county of WVhiteside and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Blanket Holders, of which the following is a speci fication.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for securing horse blankets, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which may be readily applied to a horse blanket and operates to secure the same to the traces or tugs of the harness.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device which may be readily applied without structural changes either in the blanket or the harness, and which will securely hold a blanket in position upon a horse.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device applied; Fig. 2 is a front view of the same with the catch member in open position; Fig. 3 is an edge view with the trace in section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a body or stock 10 directed outwardly at the lower end as shown at 11, and thence turned up wardly as shown at 12, the upturned portion 12 being formed at the ends with inwardly directed stop flanges. The upwardly turned portion 12 is spaced from the stock 10 a greater distance than the thickness of a trace represented conventionally at 13.

Pivoted at 14: to the body 10 near its upper end is a latch plate 15 tapered longitudinally and arranged to engage at its smaller free end rearwardly of the upturned portion 12 and between the stop flanges and likewise to bear over the outer face of the trace when the stock is disposed in position rearwardly of the trace, as shown in Fig. 1. At its lower end the latch member 15 is arranged to spring behind the upturned portion and between the stop flanges with a sufficient force to prevent accidental displacement of the latch, but which will yield to abnormal pressure to release it from the stop flanges and cause it to swing upon its pivot 14 out of the way of the trace to permit the body 10 to be located rearwardly of and beneath the trace. By this simple means the body 10 and its latch may be secured to the trace at any point desired and slidable along the trace to any required extent, while at the same time it will not be accidentally displaced therefrom when in use. The upwardly turned portion 12 is provided on its inner face with a socket 21 formed by pressing the member outwardly. This socket receives a rib 9.2 which is disposed longitudinally of the plate 15. It will be noted by this structure that an ell'ectual latch mechanism is provided which is sufliciently resilient to allow the members to be separated when it is desired to remove the trace.

At its upper end the stock 10 is provided with means for attachment to a horse blanket, and for the purpose of illustration a safety pin device, represented conventionally at 16 is shown, for this purpose. The lower member of the pin device is provided with a depression 17 around which the upper end of the body 10 is coiled, as represented at 18. By this means the pin is free to swing relative to the body 10, while the body is also free to swing relative to the pin. The point 1!) of thepin is designed to be passed through a portion of the blanket, represented conventionally at 20, and relatively close to the trace, and the body 10 and the latch 15 then connected to the trace, as before described.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured of any required size, but will preferably be struck up from sheet metal of sufticient strength to withstand the strains to which it will be subjected and may be plated, galvanized or otherwise ornamented or protected, as required.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A blanket holder consisting of a strap provided at one end with a securing device, the other end of the strap being bent at right angles to its body portion and being bent again adjacent its terminal, whereby said terminal is disposed parallel with the body portion of the strap, said terminal being formed with a of which is arranged to extend within the 10 vertically disposed socket intermediate its socket formed in the terminal of the strap. ends, a member pivotally supported on the In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature strap, said Inemlier being becilit in a plane a; in presence of two witnesses. right angles to tie strap an rovided wit atapered extension disposed parallel with ELIAS ANDERSON" the strap and the securing portion of the Witnesses:

member, said extension being formed with FRANK LUoKE'r'r,

a centrally disposed rib, the lower terminal ELMER E. HOMER.

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